Kalimat al-Mutafalsif

Well, in case you can’t guess from the title, it’s been exactly a year since I started this blog. To be more specific, it was November 20th of last year that I registered the domain. This post also (totally not planned, I swear) happens to be my 100th. Again, to be more specific it’s my 100th page… pages include things such as my warhammer picture pages and the others you find under “Pages” on the right. So, this’ll be a fun past, five days in the making, about all kinds of things dealing with the past year. ((Published a second time, I apologize))

Ok, it has come to light that one settlement with Sony/BMG would allow for the users to get some compensation. A whole $7.50 in music downloads, and one extra album download. I don’t have time right now (flying out rather soon) to go into details of how crappy a settlement this is, but it does allow for the cost of fixing the computer. As in, if I were to clean your system of this rootkit, and charged for it, Sony would be liable in small claims court.

Taken from a post on slashdot in response to one of the many Sony theads.

Ok then. Back by popular demand, my take on the Sony Fiasco, translated into human-ese.

Sony knew about the security flaws (they call ‘em features *wink*) since the beginning of October.

Think again. For those of you who have not been following the Sony-BMG fiasco, please read on.